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This was a meeting of the three estates including the clergy, nobility and commoners. This also signaled the start of the French Revolution -
An act of defiance led by the third estate during the meeting of the Estates-General meeting. -
The Bastille, which was a state prison, was attacked by a mob because the Bastille had become a symbol of dictatorial rule. -
This was a document that declared what rights the citizens should have and deserve. -
Women who just wanted to buy bread for their family marched through Paris, in the process taking over a hotel and getting weapons. -
This was when King Louis XVI was executed by the commoners -
A period of violence lead by two conflicting political factions.
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Maximilien Robespierre was executed after reigning over France for almost a year. -
Gave rights to certain people and took rights away from others -
Napoleon declares himself the Emperor of France, the coronation was held on December 2nd that year -
The war between Spain, The United Kingdom and Portugal against France for control of the Iberian Peninsula
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Napoleon takes his army which at this point is the largest military force assembled in Europe at that point, which he took to march on Russia -
After abdicating the throne Napoleon gets exiled to the Mediterranean Island of Elba -
Napoleon died of natural causes